Federal government Quotes

Most of the federal government could be shut down.

— Milo Yiannopoulos

It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

— Carly Fiorina

The federal government is way larger than it should be.

— Ron Johnson

Not federal government's job to do good deeds.

— Jim DeMint

All power is inherent in the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

I am the Federal Government.

— Tom DeLay

We should have a very limited federal government.

— Paul Broun

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

— Thomas Jefferson

It's federal jurisdiction, so the federal government can approve pipelines.

— Maxime Bernier

The number one job of the federal government is to keep its citizens safe.

— Michael Waltz

I aim to create a federal government which respects the constitution, which respects taxpayers.

— Maxime Bernier

I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.

— Barney Frank

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.

— Ronald Reagan

I want to bring accountability to the federal government. I want the federal government to respect the states.

— Paul Ryan

Child support should do just that - support children, not the federal government.

— Paul Ryan

The Federal Government plays a critical role in innovation in our country and has throughout our history.

— Dan Lipinski

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

— Ronald Reagan

It's much more powerful to say I'm working to reduce spending, deal with our nation's deficit, push back on the federal government,…

— Lisa Murkowski

My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or…

— Charles Edison

A Supreme Court justice must convince at least four colleagues to bind the federal government nationwide, whereas a district court judge issuing…

— William Barr

Providing records in a timely manner is the least the federal government can do for the men and women who have selflessly…

— Ronny Jackson

It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to which an aggressive and hostile…

— Stephen Harper

Federal consent decrees - agreements between the federal government and a local agency to change how that agency operates - are burdensome,…

— Heather Mac Donald

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the…

— Joseph Story

Queens is so often treated as a stepchild and labeled as an outer borough. At the very least, if I could help…

— Grace Meng

Despite the large number of mergers, and the growth in the absolute size of many corporations, the dominant tendency in the American…

— Gabriel Kolko

If you hurt your knee, honestly, I'd rather have the federal government focused on North Korea, focused on other things than your…

— Donald Trump

“So, Shannon,” she said as she put on her seat belt. “Tell me all about yourself.” I hated to hear that question.…

— Robin Alexander

The federal government's done a very good job about tying goodies to our compliance with federal programs, whether it's the Department of…

— Matthew Whitaker

Republicans and Democrats have long recognized that our corporate tax system hamstrings business, reduces investment, and creates unfairness. Some corporations pay massive…

— Chris Sununu

As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the…

— Mary Landrieu

In reality, if Democrats truly cared about solutions to our immigration crisis they would have done so long ago - like in…

— Kayleigh McEnany

“So take something that's been happening in recent years: devolution―that is, removing authority from the federal government down to the state governments.…

— Noam Chomsky

“Another view of the Constitution was put forward early in the twentieth century by the historian Charles Beard (arousing anger and indignation,…

— Howard Zinn

Our federal government, which was intended to operate as a very limited constitutional republic, has instead become a virtually socialist leviathan that…

— Ron Paul

Gorsuch, who is a U.S. Supreme Court nominee in the United States, said the real test of law is when a government…

— Cindy Blackstock

[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“All of our territory lying beyond the Alleghanies, north and south, was first won for us by the Southwesterners, fighting for their…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The president mentioned a couple of other ideas I'll just note. First, education. I agree: Education is key, particularly the future of…

— Mitt Romney

“Giving up animal fats has also meant shifting over to vegetable oils, and over the past century the share of these oils…

— Nina Teicholz